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Why are we in a leadership crisis? Up to 85% of mergers and acquisitions destroy value, executives are in jail, economies are shaky and politics isn't providing answers.

This new book provides answers. Based on my doctoral research and work with leaders on 5 continents for 25 years, I also draw on my experiences teaching and learning in a Karate Dojo.

You will find out why leaders fail and what can be done about it—a blend of Eastern and Western approaches.

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Men's Studies

Social Science

Sociologie, société et politique

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Date de parution	17 octobre 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781926755052
Langue	English

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WOUNDED LEADERS:
HOW THEIR DAMAGED PAST
AFFECTS YOUR FUTURE

By

Allan Bonner, BA, BEAD, MA,
MSc, DBA, LLM, MScPl (Cand.)

Wounded Leaders: How Their Damaged Past Affects Your Future

First printing, June, 2014

Published by Sextant Publishing, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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©Allan Bonner, BA,BEAD,MA, MSc,DBA,LLM, MScPI (Cand.)

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Praise for
Allan Bonner's
Wounded Leaders
Good leadership is the glue that bonds a successful organization into a cohesive whole, from top to bottom. And good leadership, as capably described by Allan Bonner in this book, is not something that you're born with; it is a quality that successful leaders-civilian and military-have learned, developed, nurtured and applied to the best advantage and to the betterment of the organizations to which they have dedicated themselves. Those who would aspire to become capable and respected leaders have much to learn from those who have succeeded, but they also have much to learn from this book. In particular, they will benefit significantly from the wise counsel that it offers on various types of leadership and the weight of importance that it gives to listening as well as providing guidance and positive influence. Indeed, and in my experience, the best leaders are those that have mastered the art of communication-both ways.
Ray Henault
Gen (Ret'd)
Former Chief of the Defence Staff, and
Former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

"Forceful, insightful and practical...
and, on top of that, a very good read."
Aram Bakshian, Jr.,
Founding Editor of American Speaker and Director of
Presidential Speech-writing for Ronald Reagan

"...Allan Bonner applies a lifetime of astute observation, involvement, and critical, scholarly thinking to the very practical matter of why businesses fail to meet their goals."
Dr. Joseph C. Braun
Argonne Nuclear laboratory

"The amalgamation of modern western psychology and ancient eastern martial arts philosophy has been the cornerstone of the curriculum I have promoted for many years. Again I turn with special trust and confidence to Dr. Allan Bonner and this, his latest work, which will serve as an inspiration to me, and an instalment to my own research and reference library."
Detective James Shanahan
Police Academy City of New York

"Is morality a necessary part of leadership? Should a leader be hard-driving? With more and more regions and countries joining the still evolving global market... the rules will change."
Rodney Moore
Former External Affairs speech-writing Attache, as well as Press Secretary, to Governors-General Michener and Leger at Government house, Ottawa; then Assistant Press Secretary to The Queen at Buckingham Palace (1974-1977), at the same time also Press Secretary to The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales and The Princess Anne; later Political Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy, Saudi Arabia; and Official Spokesperson for the Canadian Embassy, Washington, covering the 9/11 period.

FOREWORD
I came to know Allan Bonner through a series of training courses that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducts around the world to help promote the safety and good management of nuclear power plants and nuclear facilities. I have organized a number of these courses at the Argonne National Laboratory located near Chicago, Illinois in the U.S.A. Allan has lectured in many of these courses, and I had come to look forward to his exciting and dynamic presentations on the importance of good facility management and the need for developing good relations with the public-especially people who live in the vicinity of these large plants. When he told me that he was working on a new book on the topic of leadership, I immediately asked to see an advanced copy, hoping that it would lead to new lectures by him.
I have read other books by Allan Bonner, and they are all written in a crisp, succinct style that drives home a sequence of thoughts, ideas and concepts, in a manner not unlike the SOCKO s method that he advocates. Bonner likes to select a bite-sized topic and present it with both scholarship and style in a way that it is both enjoyable and memorable. In his new book,Wounded Leaders, he uses this writing style to identify a serious and growing problem that is plaguing the world of business.
There are many books today that talk about success in business. Bonner has chosen to approach this topic through the ‘back door’ and talk rather about the epidemic of failures-sometimes catastrophic-that we have seen in the recent recession and which continue to the present. We tend to ascribe much of the credit (or blame) for a company’s success (or failure) to the goals, strategies, tactics and style employed by the company leaders.
Regarding failures or lacklustre performance, he asks, “Why do so many business leaders fail to recognize the danger signs that prevent them from reaching their full personal and corporate potential?” In this book he whisks through an extensive list of findings and examples that he learned of while conducting his doctoral research on the topic of leadership. He offers a number of cases and vignettes that might explain the shortcomings of corporate leadership. Several of these stand out-the case of the wounded child who eventually becomes a wounded leader who goes on to head the wounded organization. Much wasted time, energy, inefficiency, and loss of productivity, stems from these wounded leaders. In searching for the roots of these problems, Bonner finds a shocking lack of traditional values: hard work, short turnaround times, respect for tradition and rank, humility, clean simple living, and an old term that has taken on a new meaning-followership-the capacity to learn from others.
Bonner seeks to find a model organization, that works well and implements the traditional values that he cherishes. But where does one find such an organization?
Surprisingly, Bonner finds such an organization right under his nose. For years he has practiced Karate as a physical and psychological diversion from his workplace. Fie ponders the problems of corporate management on his way to and from his Karate Dojo. Finally it strikes him that a well-run Karate Dojo has all of the good qualities that he would like to see in a well-run business organization. A significant portion of the book makes these comparisons and shows how respect for others, practise, learning and training, a constant striving for excellence and a high level of performance, along with a sprinkling of tradition and ritual, mark the attributes of some of the world’s best run and most successful organizations.
Finally, Bonner adds a set of appendices that offer help for the wounded leader through a “twelve-step” program, a list of principles and practices that connect life in a Dojo to the world of business, and a list of personal insights, observations and wisdom that can be helpful in the world of business.
In this book Allan Bonner applies a lifetime of astute observation, involvement, and critical, scholarly thinking to the very practical matter of why businesses fail to meet their goals. This new approach to an age-old problem may be the starting point of a whole new way of looking at and improving the management systems that we all depend on to run our modern organizations.

JCB

Joseph C. Braun Ph.D.
Nuclear Engineer
Nuclear Engineering Division
Argonne National Laboratory
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I t’s always tempting to reveal some insight, or gossip, about the difficulties and joys of research and writing. I try to reserve the joy for myself and delegate the difficulties to others. But, more seriously, the others deserve thanks.
I’ve always found the thanks to wives in introductions a little pro forma. I’d like to rise above that. The best way I can describe Lorna Jackson’s input is as a professional writer, broadcaster, researcher and reader. Lorna began her career as a researcher for the landmark CBC TV shows “Marketplace” and “Take 30”. I benefit from her skills most days as she sends me links to things I’m studying or writing about. In this case, she suggested using the image of St. Sebastian to symbolize the wounded leader. She also read several drafts of my Doctoral thesis on which this book is based and then read this draft several times. Lorna’s quiet input and encouragement takes her away from her own projects and I’m grateful.
My boys, grown men now, have made sacrifices and contributions too. I interrupted many vacations with work. They saw many kitchen and dining room tables strewn with papers. But then the tables turned. Both Michael and Christian began carving out their own areas of interest and were able to add something new to mine. Michael’s knowledge of languages and history and Christian’s of music, popular culture and mythology have enriched my understanding. Michael has helped me parse words by knowing their roots and manifestations in other languages, and Christian added the concept of the “wounded king”. I am enjoying speaking with both as men now.
I lucked out with a great supervisor for my Doctorate-Dr. Roy Damary, Oxonian, Harvardian, lay preacher and entrepreneur. Roy is the author of an economic newsletter that warns of trouble years before it happens and has become a great friend. I’ve visited